Take It Back...Give It Up
I have been talking about victory and loss and I wanted to address something that we as Christians are familiar with and often confide in to make ourselves feel better about loss. Whenever we undergo trial and experience loss, even in victory, especially in victory, we want to immediately "go into the devil's camp and take back what he stole from us."
Most of the time the things we lose are meant to be lost, disappear or die to work for the good of those who love the Lord according to His purpose. We are always trying to get back what the devil stole, not wanting to face the truth that most of the time what we have lost, wasn't ours in the first place and we got it by doing wrong from the get go. It gave us trouble and we lost it because it wasn't for us and we should learn from the loss that we can't get what we want that way. Some things just belong to the devil; lifestyles, habits, actions, behaviors - so trying to get them back just leaves room for that same trial to return and suck us back into what we thought we had victory over. Those of us who have been an enemy to God really don't seem to get this idea and the devil uses us by convincing us that everything we want we should have, we have a right to it, it belongs to us no matter what God has said. When we lose it we look like idiots trying to hold on despite the trouble or pain it brings to anyone. LET IT GO! That includes the anger, the envy and the pride because the guilt whether you feel it now or later, the pain and the fear come with it, they are a package deal, part of the reaping and sowing of life. So give it up. If God didn't say it was for you and if He is bringing something new and better, even if it is the same thing recieve it and let the past things go. But I have learned that you must treat the new things better as a show of gratitude and the struggle and trials by which you recieved them. I am now a better steward being careful to take what I have and bless it daily, love it and remembering to give God praise for it.
Yes after enduring a trial of immense proportions I can say that I don't want anything that the devil stole, he can keep it. I see it as tainted and used. Nobody wants seconds, no matter how much they may argue that about it's benefit to them, it is still old to someone else.
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Most of the time the things we lose are meant to be lost, disappear or die to work for the good of those who love the Lord according to His purpose. We are always trying to get back what the devil stole, not wanting to face the truth that most of the time what we have lost, wasn't ours in the first place and we got it by doing wrong from the get go. It gave us trouble and we lost it because it wasn't for us and we should learn from the loss that we can't get what we want that way. Some things just belong to the devil; lifestyles, habits, actions, behaviors - so trying to get them back just leaves room for that same trial to return and suck us back into what we thought we had victory over. Those of us who have been an enemy to God really don't seem to get this idea and the devil uses us by convincing us that everything we want we should have, we have a right to it, it belongs to us no matter what God has said. When we lose it we look like idiots trying to hold on despite the trouble or pain it brings to anyone. LET IT GO! That includes the anger, the envy and the pride because the guilt whether you feel it now or later, the pain and the fear come with it, they are a package deal, part of the reaping and sowing of life. So give it up. If God didn't say it was for you and if He is bringing something new and better, even if it is the same thing recieve it and let the past things go. But I have learned that you must treat the new things better as a show of gratitude and the struggle and trials by which you recieved them. I am now a better steward being careful to take what I have and bless it daily, love it and remembering to give God praise for it.
Yes after enduring a trial of immense proportions I can say that I don't want anything that the devil stole, he can keep it. I see it as tainted and used. Nobody wants seconds, no matter how much they may argue that about it's benefit to them, it is still old to someone else.
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